1st cast deer!

[git_dr1]

I took to the woods today with my old Ted Williams 30-30 that I have not hunted with for over 20 years and bagged my first cast boolit deer.

I could not believe the accuracy I got while shooting it over the summer so I thought I would give it a shot. The load I settled on was 8 grain of red dot behind a lee 170 grain flat nose boolit cast from ww, hornady gas check and lubed with LLA.

I made the shot on the deer that was out about 90 yards and it only went about 20 yards before giving in.

What I did learn was that I definately need to pay attention to boolit hardness. The deer was facing me head on so I landed one in the front of her chest. After skinning, I found that the boolit did a complete pass through and exited out the back side. There was no expansion what so ever. A hole going in and an identical size hole going out.

I was quite surprised of the penetration at that distance.

There was minimal meat loss, actually way less than many that I have taken with the J-words.

No pictures but there really wasn't much to show.

[Blammer]

Awesome! so now you can safely say that 8gr of reddot will definitely kill a deer at 90yds! a lot of people want to know that information!

no I'm not being funny, that question gets asked a lot! Good job!

I like it!

[Whit Spurzon]

Impressive. Any idea how fast the bullet is going?

I've had good luck with Red Dot in 30-30 too. Very accurate.

[Hamish]

Meat in the freezer with a neat old rifle at less than a dime a shot. What could be better?

[Jim]

A hole on both ends, no expansion and 20 steps to eternity? Works for me!

Good job, bud!!

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Nice! I just used that same boolit on my first deer. Any ideas on velocity?

[git_dr1]

Sorry I don't have a chrono yet so I don't have a velocity yet. Its next on the to get list.

[pls1911]

That same load through the shoulder/spine junction area will drop a big ol deer or a big ol' pig in its tracks. About 2"-4" low from the back profile at the shoulder ... bang...flop.

Cheap accurate, easy to shoot, relatively quiet, and very deadly...what's not to like?

[smoked turkey]

+1 with the other posts to this thread. Congratulations on the success of your hunt and your load. As I get a little older I seem to be gravatiting towards those loads that don't beat me around as much. 90 yards is a good ways to do what you did. Nice shooting.

[Silvercreek Farmer]

I'm guessing somewhere around 1300-1400 fps. Accuracy wins (nearly) every time!

[**oneshot**]

I'm guessing it caused a good shock wave going through. Something had to happen to get him down in 20yds.

Congrads on the deer!!

[white eagle]

wow
very nice
ya know ya just gotta love it when a plan comes together

[Cmasailor]

Very cool! Congrats on a kill!

[git_dr1]

Thanks for all the congrats!

Oneshot, my brother was in a stand a couple hundreds yards away and he said that when it hit it sounded like someone hit a tree with a baseball bat.

[milkman]

Quickload gives 1350 fps at the muzzle and with the Hornady ballistics calculator, 100 yd velocity should be 1176. A pass through lengthwise at 1200fps is impressive. Was the hole from the flat point much larger than boolit diameter?

[git_dr1]

Both of the holes in the hide were roughly the same size as the bullet diameter.

It was a smaller deer. I don't know if I would have got the penetration on a larger animal but I am sure it would have still did the job.

[gds]

I love it.